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Elegant furniture made with discarded cables from Golden Gate Bridge

These old, thick cable ropes have done their job: now it's time to reuse them in a beautiful way.




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The early bird gets the iPhone. And also gets media attention for an organic farm at the White House

You may have heard that the iPhone 3G went on sale this morning. I saw a line outside of the AT&T; stores here in Manhattan, and I heard there was a line around the block this morning at the Union Street Apple store in San




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Frugal, Organic, Sugarfree - What More Could A Dessert Want to Be?

Deep from the innards of the TreeHugger test kitchen (ok, there's no TH test kitchen, just the hordes of us hungry bloggers trying to keep both budget and taste buds happy) emerges a new, quick, and decidedly healthy everyday




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Sowing the Seeds of Sustainability: Victory Gardens are Back!

During World War II ordinary citizens across the country did their part for the war effort by planting victory gardens to lessen the demand on the food system caused by the war. Some have suggested that sustainability is about returning to the more




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Singapore coral reefs are super resilient, study finds

These reefs live in murky water with low levels of light and are likely to survive rising sea levels, researchers say.




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Tokyo's Nagakin tower goes tall and goes wood

It is a modern plug-in city that is organic in more ways than one.




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What's the future of the gas station?

A competition invites designers to come up with ideas, but really, it's old news. They have been disappearing for years.




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Backyard garage shed converted into modern 'Granny Pad'

An old garage shed is transformed into a spacious little home for one grandmother, living near her kids and grandkids.




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This algae-powered exterior cladding turns polluted air into fresh oxygen

This modular curtain could help existing buildings photosynthesize oxygen and get rid of pollution in cities.




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Illegal Amazon Gold: Fight to Protect the Amazon Unites Celebrity Artists, War Journalists, and You

"How are we going to protect it if we don't understand what's at stake?"




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Going vegan? Use this 12-week daily planner

It contains all the nutritional info, recipes, and moral support you'll need for a big dietary transition.




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Why argan oil is so expensive

It's an incredibly hard process.




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Horrific legal loophole allows Costa Rica fishermen to fin sharks (warning: graphic)

When you create a law to regulate something, there's always the danger that people will drive a truck through the loopholes, adhering to the letter of the law but not its spirit.




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Is the word 'hunter-gatherer' offensive?

Someone recently told me it suggests indigenous peoples are primitive.




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Arctic foxes are 'ecosystem engineers' who grow beautiful gardens

Researchers discover how Arctic foxes modify their dens to make the surrounding land more fertile.




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Is vegan design the Next Big Trend?

It's a nice idea, but it needs a bit more rigor.




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Organic Goodies Make Perfect Green Thank-You Gift

Our mothers taught us (well, some of us) to send thank-you notes and to bring a gift when staying at someone's house or cottage as a guest. But what to bring? You don't know their taste, or you don't like their taste or you know that they don't need




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Gas prices are going up. What will this do to light truck sales?

The only things that ever seems to affect SUV and pickup sales are the economy and the price of gas.




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Note to Bloggers: Not Every Building with Corrugated Metal is Made of Shipping Containers

A blog confuses corrugated metal with containers on a project that could have been interesting for its own sake.




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Tetris-Like Gardens Green Concrete Backyards in Buenos Aires

Concrete containers are placed in a metallic structure, forming a green wall to the eye and a walk in space to interact with the plants.




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Calgary getting a BIG green Telus Tower

Architectural rock star Bjarke Ingels lands in the Canadian oil capital




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Oil industry magazine puts Tesla on cover, "beginning of the end for oil?"

Is the oil industry starting to be worried about electric vehicles?




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Calgarians protest planting trees, saying they will be cover for crime

"'If you give people more places to hide, more naughty things will be done"




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Calgary city councillors discuss returning fluoride to water supply

One study and a pile of anecdotal evidence has shown that perhaps the decision to remove fluoride in 2011 wasn't such a great idea.




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Good bones are a good place to start for net zero carbon MacKimmie Complex in Calgary

Ethics and environmental consciousness drove this project by DIALOG at the University of Calgary.




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New Chic Travel Accessories by Jendarling Offer Alternative to Plastic Garment Bags

We've covered Jendarling's organic garment bags before. But with the holiday/travel season in full swing, their new chic Chelsea Girl collection, comprised of non-plastic garment and travel bags, is right on cue. For Jendarling,




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Emma Watson Plays it Again with Alberta Ferretti's Organic Line

She gets around, little Miss Hermione Granger from Harry Potter. First she was the face of super trendy and super expensive Burberry. Then she launched her own line for People Tree.




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How FibrEthik Promotes Fair Trade and Organic Practices in the Cotton Industry

Cotton is ubiquitous in modern life but the long trail between the fields in which the crop grows and the store at which a finished item is purchased is seldom considered.




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Ask the Experts: Why Don't We Hear About Organic Cotton Like We Used To?

A few years ago organic cotton and other eco-friendly textiles were getting all the headlines, but not so much now. Why is that? Scott Mackinlay Hahn answers.




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Hey, hey, my cotton… but only if it’s organic, says Neil Young

Neil Young may be looking for a heart of gold, but he hopes she is wearing a blouse of organic cotton.




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Meet Pact, maker of the greatest organic cotton basics

This is where your next pair of underwear needs to come from.




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Breathe easy with Knickey's fair-trade organic cotton underwear

It's a solid, sustainable choice all around.




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The 2011 Spanish Revolution; How Protesters Organise Themselves to Be Green (Photos)

The Indignados (or "Outraged") have been camping in over 60 Spanish cities for almost 10 days now. What started on the 15th of May (hence the tag #15-M) via social networks has become some of the biggest and most peaceful




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Hangar One makes vodka from San Francisco fog

It might cost $125 a bottle, but it tells a cool story about sustainability.




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Will more cities ban gas hookups?

It's not likely to happen up north, especially while gas is so cheap.




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The Death of the Yoga Mat?

Authentic Hatha yoga is already pretty minimalist. Spotted in The New York Times style section, a small group of yogins is taking it further--opting to sun salute on straight up floor rather than on their sticky




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Forever Frugal? Survey Confirms Persistent Frugality

50% of Americans had reduced their electronics and apparel expenditures in the past 12 months, according to a survey conducted by management consulting firm, Booz & Company. They sum up their findings saying that "the impact




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Roots Architecture at WOMAD 2011 - A Game of Structural Consequences (Video)

What can you do at a music festival in four days with 75 volunteers and lots of salvaged materials? Build some amazing performance stages, that's what. Last year we reported on the Roots Architecture project at the WOMAD




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Cigarette butts make for better, cleaner bricks

A process that recycles cigarette butts into bricks for construction could kick a nasty littering habit.




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A Plug-In City rises in London at the Trampery on the Gantry

"Exuberant low cost studios for creatives and artists" are plugged into a giant structure in this revolutionary project.




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3-ingredient vegan pumpkin pudding tastes like heaven

This super easy recipe makes a plant-based pumpkin pudding that is rich, creamy, healthy, and delicious.




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This is the best vegan pumpkin pie yet

This recipe's secret ingredient leads to a rich and creamy plant-based pumpkin pie that also happens to be healthy and easy to make.




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35 favorite vegan and vegetarian Thanksgiving recipes

Need some last-minute inspiration? We've gather together our favorite vegetarian and vegan recipes from which to choose.




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10 plant-based staples to stock a vegan kitchen

After decades of eating mostly a plant-based diet, these are the basic staples I've learned to keep on hand for a variety of meals.




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Natural gas (and the hydrogen economy) is a bridge to nowhere

Everybody is hopping on the hydrogen train, but it's being driven by natural gas.




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In defense of eco-hypocrisy, again

We don't have time for purity tests.




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WSJ: Natural gas leaking, venting and flaring equivalent to driving 79 million miles

Evidently natural gas has a clean image that is being threatened by reality.




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Developed-Developing Nation Split on Climate Obligations Needs Reevaluation

We need a new system to determine which nations ought to be forced to cut emissions, not the 20-year old outdated one we've got now.




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Canada celebrates 10 years making garbage great with TerraCycle

In Canada, we’ve collected over 150 million units of waste and engaged two million people to recycle.




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Shifting our gaze to improve the health of the world’s oceans

Why oceans, why now?